Run With It: 2026

Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Rededicate America to God??

Donald Trump, the current President of the USA, speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast on Wednesday, February 4, 2026, publicly announced a planned event in Washington, D.C. on May 17, 2026, to “rededicate America to God.” He invited all Americans to come to D.C. and to it’s national mall to pray, to give thanks, and to rededicate America as “one nation under God.”

So, how does that work exactly? Is that biblical? And have we, as a nation, ever been one nation under the one true God? And are we now? The Lord has taught me a lot on that subject the past 21 years, and I have recently written about it in some previous writings, so I will share here some of what I wrote previously, and on what the Lord has been revealing to me for a long while now about the US government, who they are, and who they serve, and the kinds of things they have been doing for many years across the globe.

The USA and its government and its people are NOT one nation under the One True God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. That is a façade. The opposite is true, in fact. Our government is not a humanitarian group of people who care about the people of the world, or, in fact, the people of their own nation. Our government works for the elite, wealthy, and powerful of the world in taking down nation after nation by force – stealing, killing, deceiving, and destroying, including within their own nation, and right now.

It grieves me to know of what our government has been doing all of my life, under the noses of the America citizens, most of whom have no idea what the US government has done and is doing to the people of the world while disguising their actions as something else. For they habitually lie to the American citizens. But this is not just about one country and their elected officials, but this is about a global order (new world order) being plotted and carried out by the wealthy and powerful of this world who control the world.

As a nation, we have never been one nation under the One True God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. For the US government was founded on the Freemasonry and Universalist religions, and on the occult, which is obvious in our national symbols and monuments and buildings and architecture, and on our $1 bill. And many of our national leaders are/were members of private clubs, some of which are reported to be involved in satanic rituals, occultic practices, and raping and murdering of innocents.

Then “the church” at large decided to partner with the government in an unholy union, which God forbids, and they incorporated (partnered, merged) with the state, and they brought government worship into the gatherings of “the church,” and they taught us to pledge (vow) our allegiance (fidelity) to the government, with hand over heart. And then the government became an idol to be worshipped, which sounds a whole lot like what it talks about in Revelation 13 with regard to the worship of the beast and its image.

So, based on what I know of the history of the US government and their actions toward not only the people in other nations throughout the world, but their actions within our own nation which were against the people of this nation, and in order to give them an excuse to go to war with other nations; and based off what I know of our beginnings, and of what this nation was literally founded upon, and what I know of the actions of our leaders, I have to reach the conclusion that we have never been one nation under our GOD.

And when you look at today’s modern “churches,” which have largely gone the way of the world, who are following marketing schemes of other humans rather than the full gospel of Jesus Christ, you see that the church at large is in great need of a biblical revival. So, attending some “rededicate America to God” event is not going to do it! It appears that most of those who profess faith in Jesus Christ are largely not living for the Lord, in walks of obedience to his commands, free from addiction to sin, but they live like the world.

So, what’s the answer to what ails us as a people and as a nation?

“If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among My people, and My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” (2 Chronicles 7:13-14 NASB1995)

Now, this was a specific promise to a specific group of people at a particular time in biblical history, so this is not a promise to America that if the people of this nation repent of their sins and obey God that our land will be healed. For we live in the last days. We live in the time of the rise of the antichrist, and we are coming into this time of the rule of the beast, which I believe is blatantly obvious. So, instead of joining in with our president to “rededicate America as one nation under God,” we need to follow our Lord in obedience.

The people of this nation who have made no professions of faith in Jesus Christ, and all who profess faith in Jesus with lip service only, who are still living in deliberate and habitual sin, need to repent of their sin. They need to, by the grace of God, by faith in Jesus Christ, and in the power of God deny self, die to sin daily, and walk in obedience to our Lord’s commands, but not so God will make America great, but so they will not die in their sins and spend eternity in hell, and so they will have eternal life with God.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

For Our Nation

An Original Work / September 11, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Recording Via Gerry Peters, music producer and arranger

Bombs are bursting. Night is falling.

Jesus Christ is gently calling

You to follow Him in all ways.

Trust Him with your life today.

Make Him your Lord and your Savior.

Turn from your sin. Follow Jesus.

He will forgive you of your sin;

Cleanse your heart, made new within.

Men betraying: Our trust fraying.

On our knees to God we’re praying,

Seeking God to give us answers

That are only found in Him.

God is sovereign over all things.

Nothing from His mind escaping.

He has all things under His command,

And will work all for good.

Jesus Christ is gently calling

You to follow Him in all ways.

Men deceiving: We’re believing

In our Lord, and interceding

For our nation and its people

To obey their God today.

He is our hope for our future.

For our wounds He offers suture.

He is all we need for this life.

Trust Him with your life today.

https://vimeo.com/379406352

Rededicate America to God??

An Original Work / February 17, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Called According to His Purpose

“And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified.” (Romans 8:28-30 NASB1995)

What is the context here? It is that of suffering for the sake of our faith in Jesus and our testimonies for Jesus Christ, our Lord. If we are those who by faith in Jesus Christ – a faith which comes from God and not from ourselves – have been crucified with Christ in death to sin, and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as servants of righteousness, in walks of obedience to our Lord’s commands, we will suffer in the flesh, and we will be hated, persecuted, forsaken, forgotten, and tossed aside as unworthy and worthless to most people.

For, what is our calling of God? According to Romans 8, it is that we walk (in conduct, in practice) no longer according to our sinful flesh, but now according to (in agreement and in cooperation with) the Spirit of God (v. 4). For, “If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness” (v. 10). Thus, “we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh— for if you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God” (vv. 12-14). (See also Romans 6:1-23)

Therefore, if this is what we believe, and if this is what we put into practice, by God-gifted and God-persuaded faith in Jesus Christ, which is not of our own doing, and if we do so in the power of God, and not in our own flesh, and so we are being led of the Spirit of God in what to do and in where to go and in what to say, we will be opposed just as Jesus was, and just as his New Testament apostles were, and just as the prophets before them were, and just as many of us of faith in Jesus Christ have been since then. And some of us they will put to death because of what we teach and do.

But God has a plan and a purpose for it all in our lives, and for the sake of the gospel, and for the sake of the salvation of human souls out of their addiction to sin so they can now walk righteously, by the grace of God, and serve the Lord with their lives, and no longer their sinful flesh. First, God uses suffering in our lives to keep us humble and reliant upon the Lord, and not on our flesh, and so we will be more loving and compassionate toward others, and faithful to our Lord in walks of obedience to his commands. And then he uses us as his witnesses to share the gospel message so that people throughout the world can come to know him, too, by faith in Jesus Christ.

The Gospel

Fully Ready!

Based off Acts 20-22,26; Matthew 28:18-20; Acts 1:8

An Original Work / June 19, 2013

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Why are you weeping and breaking my heart?

I’m fully ready to suffer for Christ.

If I must die for the sake of His name,

I am convinced it will not be in vain.

Glory to God and to His Son Jesus,

Who has redeemed us; bought with His blood.

May I speak to you? Jesus came to me;

Asked of me, “Why do you persecute me?”

He said, “Now get up and stand on your feet.

Go, and you’ll be told all I have for you.

I have appointed you as a servant,

And as a witness; you have been sent.”

“Go into the world and preach the gospel.

Open the blind eyes. They will receive sight.

Turn them from darkness to the light of Christ;

From power of the evil one to God,

So they may receive forgiveness of sins,

And a place among those who’re in heav’n.”

https://vimeo.com/115439432

Called According to His Purpose

An Original Work / February 17, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

If We Suffer With Him

“The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him. For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us.” (Romans 8:16-18 NASB1995)

Who are the children of God? They are all who, by God-persuaded and God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, are denying self, dying daily to sin, and following our Lord Jesus in walks of surrender to him in obedience to his commands, in daily practice. This does not make us perfect, and it does not mean that we will never sin again (1 John 2:1-2), but it does mean that sin must no longer be our practice (habit, addiction), but righteousness, holiness, and obedience to our Lord and to his commands should be what we live by.

And what kinds of sufferings? Well, the first and foremost is in our dying with Christ to sin, being reborn of the Spirit of God, and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin, but now as servants of our Lord in walks of obedience to his commands in holy living. For Satan is going to fight against us to try to get us back. So he will throw all kinds of temptations our way, and he will use other people against us to hurt us in hopes that we will give up and that we will return to living in sin.

So, if we are following Jesus Christ in his ways, according to his will, in obedience to his commands, and so we are also verbal about our faith and the gospel of our salvation, so we are speaking the truth of the gospel to the people, as opposed to the lies, we should expect that we will be persecuted for the sake of righteousness. But sadly most of our persecutors will be pastors, elders, and others who profess faith in Jesus Christ but who do not abide by the Word of God, but who make up their own truth to suit the flesh.

Yet by God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, which is not of our own doing, we are crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as slaves to righteousness in walks of obedience to God’s commands. We are no longer to permit sin to reign in our mortal bodies to make us obey its desires. For if sin is what we obey, it results in death. But if obedience to God is what we obey, it results in sanctification, and its end is eternal life with God (see Romans 6:1-23).

For Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

And this (above) is the true gospel that all of us who profess faith in Jesus Christ should be sharing with the world and with others who profess faith in Jesus Christ but who are following a false faith and a false gospel and a false Christ because they are listening to and they are believing in the lies being taught them by “wolves in sheep’s clothing” who serve as pastors, elders, and evangelists. For so many are now teaching that a mere profession of faith in Jesus Christ assures us of salvation and of eternal life with God.

Who Believes?

Based off Isaiah 53

An Original Work / October 3, 2013

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Gospel message, who believes?

Jesus Christ died on a tree,

Saving us from all our sin,

So we might be cleansed within.

Had no beauty found in Him,

That we should desire Him.

Man of sorrows, suffering;

Crushed for our iniquities.

Surely He has borne our griefs;

From our sadness, brings relief.

Bore the stripes; forsaken, He,

So forgiven we might be.

We, like sheep, have gone astray,

Each of us turned his own way.

Jesus calls, “Repent today;

My commandments, now obey.”

Jesus said, to come to him,

We must die to all our sin.

Crucified with Him, we live,

Walking in His righteousness.

Suff’ring servants, we will be,

Taking His identity on us,

When confessing Him

As our Savior, Lord and King.

https://vimeo.com/115517757

If We Suffer With Him

An Original Work / February 17, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

All Day Long

“Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Just as it is written, ‘For Your sake we are being put to death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.’ But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.” (Romans 8:35-37 NASB1995)

Five months ago today (9/17/2025), at 12:30 a.m., I began to have sharp chest pain and pressure, sharp pain in my arm on my left side, severe shortness of breath, sharp pressure and pain in my right ear, and stabbing back pain. I let it go for a while, thinking it might go away, but eventually, knowing these were possible heart attack symptoms, I went to the ER at a local hospital where they did a chest X-ray and discovered a lung nodule I had had since 2014 (checked again in 2016) had nearly doubled in size.

This began what has turned out to be a long series of hospital and doctor appointments and tests and/or procedures, which are still ongoing. The diagnosis which I have so far is 1) Moderate COPD, 2) Heart Failure, 3) A Precancerous (not cancerous) Lung Nodule in my left lung, and 4) Possible Spinal Stenosis. What I am still dealing with on a daily basis is chest pain and pressure, sharp stabbing pains in various sections of my body (rotating from place to place), cognitive issues, vision difficulties, and exhaustion.

Many people have prayed for me, and I have prayed for me and for healing, but God has his ways and his timing and his purposes in all of this. For He says, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness” (see 2 Corinthians 12:7-10). So, when I am weak, then I am strong in the strength of the Lord who supplies me with all I need to keep serving him each day despite my pain and my suffering. For my faith is being tested, but God is my portion and my strength who will sustain me through it all.

As the Deer

By Martin J. Nystrom

Based off Psalm 42:1

As the deer panteth for the water

So my soul longeth after You

You alone are my heart's desire

And I long to worship You

You alone are my strength, my shield

To You alone may my spirit yield

You alone are my heart's desire

And I long to worship You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZv3jzOTE70

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All Day Long

An Original Work / February 17, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

P.S. I do not take drugs. God took me off all medications 17 years ago. I use natural means for pain control, first and foremost which is prayer, and then heat or ice, exercise, and rest.

Monday, February 16, 2026

Don't Be Surprised

“Do not be surprised, brethren, if the world hates you. We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love abides in death. Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer; and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.” (1 John 3:13-16 NASB1995)

1 John 3:13 says, “Do not be surprised, brethren, if the world hates you.” Who hated Jesus the most? Who laid traps (mind traps) for him to fall into on a somewhat regular basis, hoping to trip him up with his words so that they would have cause to accuse him? Who harassed him on a regular basis, falsely accusing him of wrong when he was showing love to the people? Who were they who were jealous of him and of his temporary popularity among the people? And who plotted and had carried out his death on a cross?

They were not the pagans and the unbelieving who made no professions of faith in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. But they were God’s people of that time, many of whom were rulers in the temple, and instructors in the Word of God, and people of power and influence within the Jewish community. And they were his own brothers, and perhaps his neighbors. They were people he grew up with, many of whom he probably knew from birth, and that he sat with and talked with in the temple of God of that time.

So, don’t be surprised if it is not so much the people unassociated with “the church” and with worship of the One True God who will hate, persecute, reject, and mistreat you, but it will be others who call themselves “Christians,” and who claim faith in Jesus Christ, and who attend weekly gatherings of the church (or what is falsely referred to as “church”), and even those who serve in positions of leadership as pastors and elders. For many who profess Jesus are rejecting those of mature faith in our Lord.

For we live in a day and time when so much of what is called “the church” is not the universal body of people of genuine biblical faith in the Lord Jesus putting sin to death in their lives and walking in obedience to the Lord, in practice. But “the church” has become these institutions of human origin created in the minds of people, many in their deceitful scheming, who have partnered with the ungodly in order to pattern their gatherings after the world in order to attract the world so that they can grow their numbers.

Thus, they have compromised with the world in order to “win the world” to their gatherings, but mostly not to genuine biblical faith in the Lord Jesus. For if they literally teach the truth as Jesus taught it, and as his New Testament apostles taught it, in the correct biblical context, it will not draw in large crowds of people from the world into their gatherings. For the true gospel teaches that by faith in our Lord we must deny self, die to sin daily, and walk in obedience to our Lord’s commands, as a matter of practice.

Therefore, if we are ones who are spreading the truth of the gospel to the people of the world, we are likely not to be welcome and accepted in many of these gatherings called “church” which are businesses of human origin partnered with the government and with the world in unholy unions. And we may face much persecution and rejection and ridicule from those in positions of authority. But that’s okay, because God is calling us to come out from among them so we don’t share in their sins and in their punishment.

[Matthew 21:12-13; John 2:13-17; Acts 5:27-32; 1 Corinthians 1:10-13; 1 Corinthians 3:1-9; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18; Philippians 3:18-19; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22; Revelation 13:5-8; Revelation 18:1-5]

But love is not the “feel good” “tickle itching ears” approach to Christianity and to faith in Jesus Christ which so many people are marketing to the world today. Biblical love is willing to put our lives on the line by telling people the truth of the gospel so that by faith in Jesus they will deny self, die to sin daily, and follow our Lord in surrender to his will in walks of obedience to his commands in holy living. For if we teach lies to the people, it is the same as us signing their death warrant. For we curse them to hell while promising them heaven as their safety net. And that is hate! It is not love! Don’t lie!

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Acts 26:18]

My Cry for Mercy

Based off Psalm 86

An Original Work / October 31, 2013

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Hear my prayer, Lord, I am needy.

Guard my life, for I’m devoted to You.

Save me! I’m Your servant.

You are my God. I trust in You.

O, Lord, have mercy on me,

For I call to You.

Bring joy to me, for to You

I will lift up my soul.

You are giving and forgiving.

You abound in love to all who

Call upon You. Hear my prayer, Lord.

Listen to my cry for mercy.

In days of trouble I call to You,

Knowing that You will

Do marvelous things,

Because You are my God.

Teach me Your way; I’ll walk in it.

In Your truth, Lord, You will guide me.

A pure heart, Lord, You will give me,

So that I may glorify You.

Turn to me, Lord, and grant

Strength to Your servant.

O, Lord, You are my help,

For You love and You comfort me.

Teach me Your way; I’ll walk in it.

In Your truth, Lord, You will guide me.

A pure heart, Lord, You will give me,

So that I may glorify You.

https://vimeo.com/114690984

Don’t Be Surprised

An Original Work / February 16, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Love Others in Truth

“For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another; not as Cain, who was of the evil one and slew his brother. And for what reason did he slay him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s were righteous.” (1 John 3:11-12 NASB1995)

Cain and Abel

The first man and woman, Adam and Eve, were no longer in the Garden of Eden with God, for God had judged them for their sins of disobedience. Their first two sons were Cain and Abel (see Genesis 3:1-24; Genesis 4:1-16).

Abel was a keeper of flocks, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. They each offered a sacrifice to God, but God had no regard for Cain’s offering, but he did for Abel’s offering, through which Abel obtained the testimony that he was righteous. So Cain became very angry, and even though God spoke with him about his anger, and what he needed to do about it, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and he killed him. And God told Cain that he was now cursed from the ground that received his brother’s blood from his hand.

Not as Cain

Now, these things were written down for us so that we might learn from this to not desire evil as Cain did. And this reminds me of the teaching in 1 Corinthians 10:1-22 where we are taught about the things that so many of the Israelites did during their time in the wilderness and how God was not pleased with them because of their idolatries, adulteries, immorality, revelry, drunkenness, discontent, grumblings against God, and them putting God to the test. So, they were put to death, and they did not enter into God’s eternal rest (eternity with God) because of their disobedience (unbelief).

All throughout the Scriptures we are given examples of what to do and of what not to do, and of what God regards as sinful, and of what he considers to be righteous. We are taught plenty of what to put off and what to put on, and what to embrace, and what to resist. And we are frequently warned of the consequences of rebellion, disobedience, and of continuing in deliberate and habitual sin against God, that if we do not repent of our sins, and if we do not obey God and his commands (New Covenant), that we will not have eternal life with God, regardless of what our lips profess as truth.

What is Love?

So, what can we ascertain as the meaning of the word “love” just from this passage of Scripture alone? Love is the opposite of what Cain did. And Cain was guilty of pride, of self-importance, and of hate and jealously against his brother because of his brother’s approval from God which he did not also receive from God. Cain was so jealous of his brother that it turned into rage and then into murder. And murder does not have to be ending someone’s life, but it can be any act against another which deliberately defames, discredits, and mars the character of another to destroy their reputations.

Love is kindness, generosity, compassion and caring, and it is not jealousy, cruelty, or abuse. Love is truth, and not lies, and it speaks the truth which people need to hear and not the lies which tickle “itching ears.” For this kind of love is based in what is morally pure, upright, godly, honest, faithful, and obedient to our Lord and to his commands. For this is not of the flesh and determined by how we “feel,” but this love is of God, and it prefers all that God prefers, which is that we deny self, die to sin, and follow our Lord in obedience to his commands, by the Spirit, in holy living. Glory to God!

[Matthew 7:13-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 8:51; John 14:15-24; John 15:10; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 13:1-13; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; 1 Peter 1:2; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 5:9; James 1:21-25; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-15; 1 John 3:1-24; 1 John 4:19-20; 1 John 5:2-3; 2 John 1:6]

So, as followers of Jesus Christ, we are to be those who love others, not as the world does in the compromise of truth and righteousness so that others will like us, but as the Scriptures teach what love is, which is all that is of God and is holy and righteous and morally pure and upright and obedient to our Lord and to his commands. We need to love others like Jesus loves us and be willing to tell people the truth of what God’s Word teaches rather than lying to people so they will like us. For belief in Jesus requires that we deny self, die to sin, and obey our Lord’s commands, in life practice.

Love Must Be Genuine

Based off Romans 12:9-21

An Original Work / October 22, 2013

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Love must be genuine.

Hate what’s evil; cling to good.

Love each other with affection.

Show respect for ev’ryone.

Never lack in your zeal.

Serve the Lord with diligence.

Rejoice in steadfast hope.

In affliction, patient be.

Keep on praying; share with others.

Practice hospitality.

Bless those who persecute.

Feel with others sympathy.

Be not filled with conceit.

Daily sit at Jesus’ feet.

Live in harmony with others.

Live at peace with ev’ryone.

Repay not to someone

With the evil he begot.

Do not take your revenge;

Leave it to the wrath of God.

If your enemy is thirsty,

Give to him something to drink.

Do what’s right for mankind.

Evil: overcome with good.

https://vimeo.com/114695549

Love Others in Truth

An Original Work / February 16, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Sunday, February 15, 2026

They've Risen Up Against Me

“O God, arrogant men have risen up against me,
And a band of violent men have sought my life,
And they have not set You before them.
But You, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious,
Slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness and truth.
Turn to me, and be gracious to me;
Oh grant Your strength to Your servant,
And save the son of Your handmaid.
Show me a sign for good,
That those who hate me may see it and be ashamed,
Because You, O Lord, have helped me and comforted me.” (Psalm 86:14-17 NASB1995)

As followers of Jesus Christ, who are walking in his ways and in his truth, and who are sharing the truths of the Scriptures with the people of the world, we will have enemies. We will have people who will strongly oppose us and even some who may lie about us and mistreat us and cast us aside as unnecessary and as unwanted just because they don’t like what we are speaking. Or, if you are female, like I am, you may be opposed just because you are a woman, or because you are young, or because you are old.

For we live in a day and time when the truths of the Scriptures are being altered and diluted to make them less offensive to human flesh so that those who are trapped in sin may continue in their deliberate and habitual sins without conscience and without remorse. And we are living in a time when “the church” has been turned into businesses incorporated (partnered with) under the state, catering to the ungodly in order to grow their numbers. Thus, they do not operate as the biblical body of Christ under Christ’s rule.

So, if you are a follower of Jesus Christ who is taking the truths of the Scriptures to the people of the world, you should be prepared to have people hate you and reject you. You should be prepared to be an outcast with few friends to encourage and support you in your walk of faith in obedience to the Lord. You should get yourself ready to be treated as though you are weird, by human standards, like someone who has a deadly disease and needs to be avoided at all cost. For you will be in the minority, for sure.

But don’t be disheartened and discouraged if you are opposed, hated, lied about, and discarded. For Jesus was treated the same, as were his New Testament apostles and the prophets before them. Don’t let other people’s treatment of you or their opinions of you keep you from obeying the Lord in doing what he has called you to do, provided that what you are doing is of God, and it aligns with God’s word and with his will and purpose for your life. But keep persevering. Keep moving forward. And keep speaking the truth.

Yes, if you are a feeling person at all, it will hurt. It will sting when others speak evil lies against you, hoping to discredit you so that others will not listen to you. But don’t be like I was at one time where I believed people had power over me that God could do nothing about. Don’t respond in fear like I did and run away and try to escape the pain rather than to face it head on and to trust the Lord to see you through it. Lean on the Lord for your support, trust in his sovereignty, and trust him to work it all out for good.

Trust in the Lord to give you his strength to endure and to keep going forward. And then just keep being who God called you to be, and keep doing what he has called you to do, even if you are opposed, and even if people mock you and think you are crazy because of your dedication to the Lord and to his service. For it is far better to be living to please the Lord, in doing his will, and to be mistreated by other humans, than to have the approval of humans and not be doing the will of God. So, trust the Lord and do good!

[Matthew 5:10-12; Matthew 7:21-23; Matthew 10:16-25,34-39; Matthew 24:9-14; Luke 6:22-23; Luke 9:23-26; Luke 12:49-53; Luke 21:12-17; John 15:18-21; Romans 5:3-5; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-17; 2 Corinthians 1:3-11; 2 Corinthians 4:17; Hebrews 12:3-12; James 1:2-4; 1 Peter 1:6-7; Revelation 3:19; Revelation 6:9-11; Revelation 7:9-17; Revelation 11:1-3; Revelation 12:17; Revelation 13:1-18; Revelation 14:1-13]

My Cry for Mercy

Based off Psalm 86

An Original Work / October 31, 2013

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Hear my prayer, Lord, I am needy.

Guard my life, for I’m devoted to You.

Save me! I’m Your servant.

You are my God. I trust in You.

O, Lord, have mercy on me,

For I call to You.

Bring joy to me, for to You

I will lift up my soul.

You are giving and forgiving.

You abound in love to all who

Call upon You. Hear my prayer, Lord.

Listen to my cry for mercy.

In days of trouble I call to You,

Knowing that You will

Do marvelous things,

Because You are my God.

Teach me Your way; I’ll walk in it.

In Your truth, Lord, You will guide me.

A pure heart, Lord, You will give me,

So that I may glorify You.

Turn to me, Lord, and grant

Strength to Your servant.

O, Lord, You are my help,

For You love and You comfort me.

Teach me Your way; I’ll walk in it.

In Your truth, Lord, You will guide me.

A pure heart, Lord, You will give me,

So that I may glorify You.

https://vimeo.com/114690984

They’ve Risen Up Against Me

An Original Work / February 15, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

The Lower Says

“You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world. They are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them. We are from God; he who knows God listens to us; he who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.” (1 John 4:4-6 NASB1995)

As I was waking up this morning, I had this phrase in my head, “The Lower Says.” Now, sometimes the Lord speaks to me in this way, for he is leading me to a particular message he wants me to give out which is fitting with the passage of Scripture that I am reading next. Earlier this morning I covered the first 3 verses of 1 John 4 (only quoted the first verse), and verses 4-6 are what came next. And as I looked at what the word “lower” means, well, it fit perfectly. For the word “lower” can mean “debase, corrupt, deteriorated, defiled, adulterated, vile, immoral, wicked, dishonest, and sinful.”

For the “them” being referred to in verse 4 has to do with false prophets who are of the spirit of the antichrist, and not of God (see verses 1-3). They are from the world; therefore they speak (refers to says) as from the world, and the world listens to them. So they are the defiled, the corrupt, the immoral, the wicked, the dishonest, and the sinful, etc. And those who are also defiled, corrupt, immoral, wicked, and dishonest, they listen to these false teachers because they say to them what their “itching ears” want to hear, which is that God does not judge them for their sin, so they are okay.

"’Itching ears’ is a biblical idiom from 2 Timothy 4:3-4 (KJV/NIV), referring to people who avoid sound, challenging doctrine in favor of teachers who cater to their personal desires, preferences, and passions. It describes a desire for entertaining or comforting messages rather than biblical truth, often leading listeners to turn away from the gospel toward fables” (source: Google AI). Well stated! For they reject the truth in favor of the lies.

Therefore, those of us who are truly from God, via biblical and God-persuaded and God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, should no longer be like the world. Our passions and desires should be focused on what God requires of us in heart, mind, words, and behaviors. And we should no longer be those who crave the sinful desires of the flesh. Therefore we should not be among those who are listening to these false teachers who are saying what “itching ears” want to hear rather than speaking the truth of God’s word to the people. But we should be obedient followers of Jesus Christ, our Lord.

The Gospel According To Christ and His Apostles

Scripture Summaries

Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

For by God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, which is not of our own doing, we are crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as slaves to righteousness in walks of obedience to God’s commands. We are no longer to permit sin to reign in our mortal bodies to make us obey its desires. For if sin is what we obey, it results in death. But if obedience to God is what we obey, it results in sanctification, and its end is eternal life with God (see Romans 6:1-23).

For God’s grace, which is bringing us salvation, is training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives while we wait for Jesus’ return. For Christ “gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.” “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” (See Titus 2:11-14; Ephesians 2:8-10)

And we learn in 1 John 1-3 that if we claim that we have fellowship with God, but yet we walk in darkness (sin), we are liars. If we claim that we know God, but we do not obey his commandments, in practice, we are liars. For it is not the one who claims he is “in Christ” who is “in Christ,” but it is the one who has denied self, died with Christ to sin, and who is now walking in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in practice, and no longer in sin. We have the hope and the promise of eternal life with God in heaven.

Additional Scriptures

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

An Original Work / January 29, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Should I Not Preach Jesus

Based off 1 Corinthians 9:16-10:13

An Original Work / July 4, 2013

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Woe to me should I not preach Jesus.

I’m compelled to preach the full gospel.

I make myself a slave to ev’ryone

To win their hearts to Christ.

All this I do for my Lord Jesus,

And for the sake of His Name;

Do it for the sake of His gospel,

So that I, its blessings gain.

Scripture notates the sins of others;

Written down for us as examples

To keep us from setting our hearts

On evil as did those of old.

Do not worship other gods of man;

Do not give your hearts to them;

Not partake in immorality.

Do not test your Lord and King.

So, be careful if you think you are

Standing firm in your faith in Jesus.

God has given his word to warn us,

So through faith we will not fall.

No temptation has o’ertaken you

Except what is commonplace.

God is faithful to not let you be

Tempted past what you can bear.

He gives the way of escape.

https://vimeo.com/116057811

The Lower Says

An Original Work / February 15, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Do Not Believe Everyone

“Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.” (1 John 4:1 NASB1995)

Sadly, it appears that in our day and time on the earth that not many people are adhering to what this says, but they readily accept whatever sounds good to their ears and whatever is quick and easy and does not require much time or thought or consideration of words spoken to see whether or not what is being taught as truth is actually the truth being taught in the Scriptures. And the evidence of this is seen in how many are buying into a false diluted gospel which makes no requirements for death to sin and walks of obedience to God’s commands, but which coddles people in their sins.

But read this one verse in the context of the whole of 1 John, and not just in the immediate context (see vs. 2-3) which is easy to misinterpret because of the English translation. For the word “confess” is not a verbal acknowledgement of something only. The word means to speak to the same conclusion, in full agreement, to align with, in this case to be in full agreement with God about all that he teaches, and to align ourselves with his teachings via conforming our lives to be obedient to his commands, to walk in his ways, in truth, and to no longer live in captivity to sin.

So, in 1 John 1 we learn that if we say (profess, confess) that we are in fellowship with God (with God the Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit) but while we walk (in conduct, in lifestyle, in practice) in the darkness (sin, wickedness, immorality), we are lying and we do not practice the truth. But if we walk (in conduct, in lifestyle) in the Light (in Jesus Christ, in truth, in righteousness, in obedience to our Lord and his commands), the blood of Jesus, God’s only begotten Son, cleanses (frees us, delivers) us from all sin, and then we have fellowship with God and with others of faith in our Lord.

And in 1 John 2 we learn that we know that we have come to know God (Father, Son Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit) if we keep (obey, adhere to) his commandments (New Covenant) which teach that by faith in Jesus Christ we must deny self, die to sin daily, and follow our Lord in surrender to his will in walks of obedience to his commands. And this doesn’t mean we will never fail (1 John 2:1-2), but if we do not obey our Lord, in practice, we are lying and the truth is not in us. But if, by the grace of God, in the power of God, obedience to God is what we practice, then we are truly in Christ Jesus.

And 1 John 3:7-10 says, “Little children, make sure no one deceives you; the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous; the one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil. No one who is born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother.” (see also: Matthew 7:21-23; Luke 9:23-26; Romans 6:1-23)

Yet so many people today who profess faith in Jesus Christ are ignoring teachings such as these while they embrace multiple Scriptures being taught outside of their appropriate biblical context which are being made to say what they do not say if taught in the correct biblical context. And so they have the impression that they are saved and on their way to heaven even if they ignore God and his commands, and even if they deliberately and habitually continue to make sin their practice, and not obedience to God. But they are believing lies which will send them to hell on the promise of heaven. So be those who test the spirits and who believe God and his word.

No Less

An Original Work / March 19, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

I can do no less than praise You,

Lord, for all You’ve done for me.

You died for my sins to save me,

So I would be set free.

I adore You! Lord, I praise You!

Jesus, Savior, King of kings!

You provided my redemption.

Your grace has pardoned me.

I can do no less than serve You.

Lord, Your witness I would be,

Telling others of Your love,

And why You died on that tree.

Tell of how You gave of Your life,

So from sin we’d be set free,

So we could worship You forever,

And live eternally.

I can do no less than love You,

Lord, for You have first loved me.

You gave of Your life so willing,

Because You cared for me.

Turn from my sin! Obey freely!

Live for You each passing day.

Read Your word, and follow Your lead,

Lord, as I humbly pray.

https://vimeo.com/125493623

Do Not Believe Everyone

An Original Work / February 15, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Saturday, February 14, 2026

Calling Sinners to Repentance

Speaking of Jesus Christ: “After that He went out and noticed a tax collector named Levi sitting in the tax booth, and He said to him, ‘Follow Me.’ And he left everything behind, and got up and began to follow Him. And Levi gave a big reception for Him in his house; and there was a great crowd of tax collectors and other people who were reclining at the table with them. The Pharisees and their scribes began grumbling at His disciples, saying, ‘Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?’ And Jesus answered and said to them, ‘It is not those who are well who need a physician, but those who are sick. I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.’” (Luke 5:29-32 NASB1995; Matthew 9:10-13; Mark 2:15-17)

What should our attitude be toward those who are living in sin, whether or not they profess faith in Jesus Christ? We should love all people and treat all people with kindness. But what is kindness? It is not pacifying people in their sin. It is not refusal to speak to them the truth of God’s Word and to tell them that Jesus Christ died on a cross to put their sins to death with him so that they will, by God-persuaded faith in Jesus Christ, deny self, die to sin daily (repent of sin), and walk in obedience to our Lord’s commands.

And what if they are attending the gatherings of the church, but it is known that they are living sinful lifestyles, that they are deliberately and habitually choosing to live in sin, in immorality, and not in obedience to our Lord and to his commands? How should the church, the body of Christ, i.e. those of genuine walks of faith in obedience to our Lord respond? We should show them love, but love does not pacify nor approve of sin. Love speaks the truth in love, and it calls sinners to repentance, just like Jesus did.

For, what is the purpose of the church? Well, first of all let me state that the church is not a building. It is not a church denomination incorporated under the state (in an unholy union with the ungodly). It is not a business of human origin to be marketed to the people of the world like any other business. And its purpose is not to alter the gospel to make it less offensive to the ungodly, nor is it to entertain the world via worldly methods. For the church is the people of God who have died to sin and are obeying God.

And the purpose of our gatherings is to be for the mutual encouragement and strengthening of the body of Christ in walks of obedience to our Lord in holy living, and to warn against false teachers and false teaching, and against the deceitfulness of sin. We gather together as the body of Christ to help one another to live for the Lord, to obey his commands, and to walk in purity of devotion to our Lord so that none of us are led astray by liars and deceivers who would try to convince us that our sins do not matter.

We who believe in Jesus Christ are also the called of God to be taking the true biblical message of the gospel to the people of the world. And we should be giving them the whole truth and not these half-truth “gospel” renditions which do not put sin to death, but which coddle people in their sins, and which make no demands for walks of obedience to our Lord. For the Scriptures teach that if sin is what we practice, and not obedience to our Lord and to his commands, that we will not have eternal life with God.

The Letters

Based off Revelation 2-3

An Original Work / December 17, 2013

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

To the angels of all the churches write:

These are the words of your Lord and your God.

I know all your deeds, and your witness, too,

And who holds to My words and tells what’s true.

I know all your hard work and your perseverance,

Yet I hold against you: you’ve forsaken Me.

Listen to what I say to you.

You have people there who deny My name,

And who put the cross of Christ up to shame.

They entice the people to Me, profane,

And their worship of Me is all in vain.

They are so adult’rous as they chase their idols,

And you put up with them easily enough.

Listen to what I say to you.

You give off an image of godliness,

But what you present is so fraudulent,

Or else you lack passion for Jesus Christ,

So you look to others to tell what’s right.

I say turn from your sin, or you will face judgment.

He who overcomes will have eternal life.

Listen to what I say to you.

I know your afflictions and poverty;

How you suffer for your Lord patiently.

Do not fear the devil and company.

You be faithful to your Lord endlessly.

I know all your weakness and your dedication.

You have kept My Word and not denied your Lord.

I will write on you My new name.

https://vimeo.com/114655138

Calling Sinners to Repentance

An Original Work / February 14, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Don't Call It Love If..

“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.” (John 13:34-35 NASB1995)

The above passage of Scripture is the “Verse Of The Day” on Bible Gateway, which is the Bible source I use for writing on the internet. My first thought was, “I just taught on the subject of ‘love’ recently,” so I began to look at the other verses to see if I should write on something else. And, as I was contemplating this in my mind, I looked over to my left, to a little sign made for me by one of my grandsons which says, “A Little Sign to Say I Love You.” But partly covering the word “say” was a red lady bug with dark spots.

And here’s the thing. When Jesus lived on the earth he often spoke to the people in parables. So, parables are not anti-biblical as long as they agree with and support the teachings of the Scriptures. I like this definition:

“A biblical parable is a short, realistic story or analogy using everyday scenarios—such as farming, fishing, or household tasks—to teach profound spiritual truths or moral principles. Primarily used by Jesus in the Gospels to describe the Kingdom of God, these narratives function as ‘earthly stories with heavenly meanings’.” (Source: Google AI)

So, when I see something like this bug, and the Holy Spirit prompts me, I know to look at the meanings of the words in the image. So, what is a bug? It can be many things, but what stands out to me is that it is an infection, a poison, an impurity of some kind. And “spot” (in this case multiple dark spots) is also a blemish or a moral flaw (sin), which are multiplied. And dark is used consistently throughout the Scriptures to symbolize the opposite of light, such as lies, deceptions, immorality, wickedness, i.e. sinful behaviors.

Okay, so this “bug” is positioned on the word “say,” which has to do with expressing thoughts, opinions, beliefs, and/or information, either in verbal or in written form. So this would seem to indicate that there is an impurity, a lie, a deception in the words spoken, “I love you.” (This has nothing to do with who gave me this sign. This is a parable only!) And “a little sign” could be a slight (an insult) and/or an insignificant indication of actual love being present in the words spoken. So, “I Love You” is a lie, and thus an insult.

Now in the USA today, February 14th is traditionally referred to as “Valentines Day.” This celebration has pagan roots to it, and the “love” being spoken of is typically of romantic love, not the kind of love being referred to in this passage of Scripture. But it is also used in the context of friendship love, too. And the color “red” is the color associated with the holiday, which interestingly enough was both the color of the little sign and of the lady bug. Like, “though your sins be as scarlet,” so symbolic of sin (Isaiah 1:18).

So, when Jesus gave the commandment to love one another as he loved (loves) us, he was not speaking of romantic love, and he was not speaking of fake artificial love (the sign was made of plastic) spoken falsely in words only but with little to no evidence of actual love being put into practice. For how did Jesus demonstrate his love for us? He sacrificed his life for us on a cross to put our sins to death with him so that, by faith in him, we will now die to sin and live to God in walks of surrender to him in obeying our Lord.

And this word “love” is agape, which has to do with preferring what God prefers, i.e. all that is holy, righteous, godly, morally pure, upright, honest, faithful, and obedient to our Lord and to his commands. For the believer in Christ, it involves us denying self, dying to sin daily, and walking in obedience to his commands, in practice, by the Spirit. So, when we say that we love God, or that we love other humans, it should be this kind of love which is honest, faithful, and pure, and not fake, impure, and deceptive.

So, if you claim to love God, and to be in fellowship with him, but while you walk in darkness (in sin), and while you do not obey his commands, in practice, the Bible says that you are telling a lie. And if you say to your spouse, “I love you,” while you deliberately and habitually sin against them via addiction to sexual sin and adultery, don’t call it love. Don’t lie. Don’t give your spouse a valentines card and a hug and a kiss if you are secretly looking at sexually explicit images and committing adultery in your minds.

Don’t call it love if it is hate in disguise. For adultery against your spouse is hate, not love. And refusal to obey our Lord’s commandments and to walk in love and in moral purity is also hate, not love. For biblical love is not based in emotions and in lies to cover up sin. And a valentines day card is not proof of love. If cheating is what is taking place in the background, it is an insult. Be honest. Be sincere. Don’t lie. Don’t cheat. Repent of sins of adultery and idolatry, and now love purely as God, as Christ loves us and sacrificed for us.

In Harmony

Based off Romans 12:9-21; 1 Peter 3:8-17

An Original Work / September 2, 2012

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Love each other truly.

Cling to what is good.

Hate all that is evil.

Never lack in zeal.

Serve the Lord with fervor.

Joyful in hope be;

Patient in affliction;

Praying faithfully.

Honor one another.

Live in harmony.

Share with all God’s people

Who are found in need.

Do not be conceited.

Sympathetic be.

Love, and show compassion

In humility.

Keep your tongue from evil.

Peaceful you must be.

Honor one another.

Live in harmony.

God sees who are righteous;

Listens to their prayers.

But He’s against evil –

Is His to avenge.

Do not fear what they fear.

Suffer patiently.

In your hearts, make Christ Lord.

Serve Him faithfully.

Honor one another.

Live in harmony.

https://vimeo.com/112832903

Don’t Call It Love If

An Original Work / February 14, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Friday, February 13, 2026

The Light Has Come

Whoever Believes in Him

“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.” (John 3:16 NASB1995)

Let’s break this down biblically. Who is God? He is Father, Son Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit, our triune God. He always was and he always will be. And Jesus Christ always was God, and he was with God in the beginning, and all things which were made were made by him. Jesus is our creator God. And Jesus Christ left his throne in heaven, came to earth, was born as a human baby to a virgin woman (Mary), but was conceived of the Holy Spirit, so he was not born with a sin nature as we are. And all the time Jesus lived on the earth he was God incarnate (God made flesh) who lived among the people.

[Genesis 1:26; Genesis 3:22; John 1:1-36; John 8:24,58; John 10:30-33; John 20:28-29; Romans 9:5; 1 Corinthians 10:1-4; Philippians 2:5-11; Colossians 2:9; Titus 2:13; Hebrews 1:8-9; 1 Peter 1:20-21; 2 Peter 1:1]

God so loved.. This word “love” means “to prefer,” “to choose,” “to prefer to love,” which is centered in moral preference and in what God prefers, which is all that is holy, just, morally pure, righteous, godly, honest, faithful, and obedient to his commands. This is the kind of love he had/has for the people of the world, that they/we would, by faith in Jesus Christ, live holy lives, pleasing to God, living morally pure and upright lives for the glory of God. From the source of this love he sent Jesus Christ to put our sins to death with him so by faith in him we will now die to sin and obey our Lord.

God gave us his only begotten Son (conceived of the Holy Spirit, birthed of a virgin woman), in his life, death, resurrection, and ascension back to heaven, where he then sent the Holy Spirit to indwell his followers, that whoever believes in him… that whoever (actively, ongoing) believing in him…which is continuous, active faith, ongoing to the very end… a faith which means to be persuaded, i.e. to be persuaded by God. And God persuades us as to his righteousness, and of our sinfulness, and of our need to die to sin and to now walk in obedience to our Lord, empowered by God.

So God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – loved us humans enough to send himself, in the person of His Son, Jesus Christ, into the world, in order that he would put our sins to death with him so that, by obedient (ongoing) faith in our Lord, and in the teachings of his word, via submission to him as Lord, we would now die with Christ to sin, and be raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as servants of the Lord in holy living in walks of obedience to him and to his commands. This is what it means to believe in Jesus, to have our lives belonging to God.

Unless You Are Born Again

Based off John 3:1-21

An Original Work / November 3, 2013

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Nicodemus came to Jesus.

He acknowledged God was with Him.

Jesus said, “You can’t see heaven

Unless you are born again.”

“How can a man be born when he’s old?

Can he enter into his mother’s womb?”

Jesus answered, “Flesh is flesh,

So of the Spirit, you must be.”

Jesus said to Nicodemus,

“You’re a teacher, and yet you don’t

Understand of what I tell you,

Because you will not believe.

“For God so loved the world that He gave

His one and His only Son for your sin.

So, whoever believes in Him

Has eternal life in heav’n.

“Light has come into the world,

But human beings love the darkness,

Because their deeds are so evil,

So in truth, they stand condemned.

“Everyone who practices evil

Fears that the Light will expose his sin.

Yet, whoever lives his life by the Light

Does so through his God.”

https://vimeo.com/114686371

Whoever Believes in Him

An Original Work / February 13, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Thursday, February 12, 2026

Institutional Religion

“Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful; and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near.” (Hebrews 10:23-25 NASB1995; see also Hebrews 3:13)

This is a passage of Scripture which is often misquoted and misused to try to shame people into being in attendance at a building called “church” once a week, on a Sunday morning, to sit in a pew, or in a chair, to listen to announcements, to sing “praise and worship” songs (chosen and lead by one person), and then to listen to a sermon, usually by the same person every week, with no one testing what is being taught to see if it is biblical, and then to go home and live a normal life until the next week of required attendance where you go through the same routine all over again.

Well, first off, “the church” is not a building that you go to every Sunday morning in order to go through this weekly routine while you live however you want the rest of the time. It is not a building nor is it a place you go to. The church is the body of Christ, the universal body of believers in Jesus Christ who have trusted in him to be Lord and Savior of their lives. By faith in Jesus Christ they have denied self, died to sin, and they are now living to please God in walks of obedience to his commands, in practice, although not necessarily in sinless perfection. But we should all be growing in our faith.

The gatherings of the church are to be daily in any appropriate location on any day of the week at any time of day or night, which does not have to be a physical location, but which can be on the internet, via a phone call, or via a video call or a text message or any other means of communication between brothers and sisters in Christ where we are gathering to share with one another biblical words of encouragement and exhortation so that none of us are hardened by sin’s deceitfulness, so we are not led astray by lies and liars, and so we help one another to mature in our walks of faith in Christ.

[Acts 2:14-18,42-47; Romans 12:1-8; 1 Corinthians 12:1-31; 1 Corinthians 14:1-5; Galatians 6:1; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:1-16; Ephesians 5:15-21; Ephesians 6:10-20; Philippians 2:1-8; Colossians 3:12-16; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:13; Hebrews 10:23-25; James 5:19-20]

For the whole purpose of us assembling together is not so that a small minority of people run the whole show while we sit as spectators taking in the show, while they let us sing a few pre-chosen songs, chosen by one person, and afterwards we all go home until the next week, and then repeat the same pattern. The whole purpose of us gathering together is for mutual encouragement and edification and teaching, to help one another to draw closer to the Lord in our walks of surrender to him. This is where we get to use our spiritual gifts in our assigned (by God) body parts, for God’s glory.

The church is also not a place of business incorporated under the state, partnered with the ungodly of the world, which God forbids. It is also not a business being marketed to the people of the world just like any other business, using secular marketing schemes for the purpose to attract the people of the world to your gatherings, which God also forbids. It is not a social club nor a civic center nor a place to hob-nob with the powerful and wealthy of the world in order to win friends and influence people. But this is what much of what is called “church” has turned out to be in our day.

And God is calling his children to come out from among her lest we take part in her sins and in her punishment, for God has remembered her iniquities. And he is commanding us to not be partnered with the ungodly and with their idols. And then God will be our God and we shall be his people when we go out from among those whose worship is of idols and of men, who have turned the church into a marketplace partnered with the world rather than to serve God only and to do what he says. And we are to meet with the body of Christ for mutual encouragement and edification, and not just once a week.

The Train

An Original Work / July 17, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

The train is coming down the tracks.

It captures all who in faith lack.

The engine is controlled by man;

Leads each captive to ruin.

The cars, they are God’s holy church,

Which follows men who are on the search

To trap the church in their own snare;

For Christ they do not care.

The track, it leads to God’s judgment

For those who are not repentant,

But follow, each his own stubborn way,

And Jesus they do not obey.

So God is calling to His bride

To turn from sin and in Christ abide;

Stop placing their trust solely in man;

Trust Christ for His forgiveness.

https://vimeo.com/113676228

Institutional Religion

An Original Work / February 12, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Ministers to The Body

“Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God. Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father.” (Colossians 3:16-17 NASB1995)

“…but be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord.” (Ephesians 5:18-19 NASB1995)

As followers of Jesus Christ, and as his body parts, we all have a God-given responsibility to be ministers to the other parts (members) of the body. For the “ministers” are not just the “pastors,” but all of us are to be ministers of Jesus Christ and of his gospel message and to one another within the body of Christ, the church (the only church). For all of us of genuine biblical faith in the Lord Jesus have been given spiritual gifts, of the Spirt, and we have been assigned our body parts (ministries) by God to be put into practice.

We are all to be speaking the truth of God’s Word in love to one another, teaching, encouraging, lifting up, warning, counseling, and admonishing one another. We all are to help one another to grow to maturity in our walks of faith in obedience to our Lord’s commands, and to not be led astray by the deceitfulness of people in their cunning and craftiness who teach a false grace gospel and not the Gospel of Christ. And we are to exhort one another every day so that none of us may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.

In addition to all of that, we are to be students of the Scriptures who study them in their correct and proper biblical context, who are seekers of truth and righteousness, who desire to know, in truth, what God’s Word teaches us, because we want to obey the Word of the Lord, and our Lord. For we don’t want to be those with head knowledge only, who can recite Scriptures, and who can instruct others. But we want to be those who are putting the truths of the Scriptures into practice in our everyday lives, by the Spirit.

So, what we teach others we should be living ourselves, and if we are not, we should be honest about it, and then correct the areas where we are in error so that we don’t end up being hypocrites trying to teach others what we ourselves are not living. But that should not be our only reason for changing how we live. We should do what is right in the eyes of God because we love God, and because we want to obey our Lord and to live holy lives, pleasing to God, free from slavery to sin, for the glory of God, in his power.

And then we read here that, with all wisdom, we are to be teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. And we are to be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. But when do you see that happening in the gatherings of the church? For a “worship service” where one person picks out all the songs, and where a select few lead us in singing many songs which are not psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, is not what is meant.

We are to be teaching ONE ANOTHER with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs which teach the messages found in the Scriptures, which are to help us to grow to maturity in Christ, and to be encouraged in our walks of faith in obedience to our Lord in holy living, which is what many of the old hymns of the faith do, but which (it seems) few of these modern-day “worship” songs actually do. So this is about us ministering to one another such songs as which help us to walk worthy of the calling of the Lord in our daily lives.

So, I am going to add this on here that, beginning in 2011, the Lord gave me a gift of writing such songs as what are mentioned here, and for the very purpose of what is being taught here. These are not for show. They are not for entertainment. They are not flashy and well-orchestrated and produced. They are simple songs of faith written very simply and sung by an old lady whose voice has seen better days. But they are for the encouragement of the body of Christ, which you will see if you read the lyrics.

And they are often included with my daily devotions, which is for your encouragement, not to entertain you. And they are examples to you of what these passages of Scripture are talking about. We need more of this in the gatherings of the church, and less showmanship and empty lyrics that do nothing to lead you to walk in faithfulness to your Lord in holy living. And if you are not familiar with the old hymns, see if you can get a copy of an old hymnal and read the lyrics. They are not all great, but many of them are!

To My Beloved

Based off I Peter 5:6-9; Ephesians 6:10-20; James. 4:4-10

An Original Work / November 14, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Be strong in the grace of Christ, and

Put on His full armor in your fight

Against the enemy of your souls,

And resist him with all your might.

Take up the shield of your faith within you.

Salvation’s helmet – you put it on.

Put on the belt of truth,

And walk in the Spirit,

And you’ll not be ashamed.

Love your Lord Jesus; call His Name.

Call on your Lord and Savior, Jesus, and

Make Him Lord and King of your hearts.

Obey all of His teachings He has given

To you to follow in all His ways.

Repent of your sins. Return to your God.

Follow Him where’er He leads you now.

Humble yourselves in full

Surrender to His will

For your lives today.

Bow before Him, and humbly pray.

Be strong in the grace of Christ, and

Obey your Lord in ev’rything, always

Keeping His teachings in your hearts near you.

Walk with Christ in ev’ry way.

Resist the devil. He will flee from you.

Draw near to God, and He’ll be near you.

Wash your hands you sinners

And double minded.

Weep and wail o’er sin.

With Christ, your new lives begin.

https://vimeo.com/125863190

Ministers to The Body

An Original Work / February 12, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Have This Attitude

“Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others.

“Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.” (Philippians 2:3-8 NASB1995)

As followers of Jesus Christ, we are the body of Christ, the church (the only church). And as the body of believers in Jesus Christ we are to minister to one another within the body of Christ, and we are to be taking the message of the gospel of Christ to the people of the world. This is our mission. And we are not to do this out of selfish ambition or empty conceit, looking out for our own personal interests without thought and consideration of what others need, where they are in want, where they are hurting, and how we can help.

The Lord has reminded me here of how he put it on my heart, and on the heart of my husband, to open our home to college students and to college age adults for a weekly Sunday night Bible study back in January of 1999. Two of our four children were in college at that time, but we asked all of our kids to invite their friends, and some (or all) of them did. We began small, but it wasn’t long before we had 25 to 30 young adults in our home for Bible study every Sunday night, and we fed them dinner, too, every week.

And then the Lord put it on our hearts to purchase musical instruments for them to play so we could sing songs of worship of our God together. And then we added on a game night. And we added on a Wednesday night bible study where we separated male and female, and I taught the women, and my husband taught the men, but we gathered together for singing and for fellowship and meal time. And some of the best times were when we all gathered around the kitchen and everyone had someone to talk to.

Our times together were very participatory. My husband didn’t just preach sermons, but he taught lessons and he asked questions, and the students were able to talk about what they were getting out of the Scriptures, and no one fought with anyone else. And we were forming together into a family. And everyone who wanted to participate, in various ways, was given the opportunity, either to sing or to play an instrument or to cook a meal or do clean up or whatever. We were ministering to their needs, out of love.

Now, not everything went smoothly, and we weren’t perfect in everything that we did, and this was a learning and a growing experience for us, as well. But for 7.5 years we did this weekly, mostly out of our home, although we did partner with several institutional churches for a time. But God closed the doors to those partnerships one after another after another. For that is not where he wanted us. He wanted us in the home. But the young adults graduated, and/or they got married, and eventually this all ended in 2006.

By this time I was already about 1.5 years into what God had called me to do in 2004, which I have continued to do ever since then. So, when one door closed the Lord just opened more doors for me and for the ministry to which he had called me. So, why am I telling you all of this? Well, it is what the Lord put on my heart to share, so I did share it. But I believe it is also a lesson in what it means to do nothing from selfish or empty conceit, but with humility of mind to regard one another as more important than yourselves.

For when my husband and I ministered to those youth for 7.5 years, it was not out of any selfish ambition that I am aware of, but it was out of love for the students and the young adults and their needs. We didn’t get paid money for what we did. We didn’t charge anyone anything, either. Toward the end we were working toward turning this into a church plant, so a few people gave their tithes to the ministry, but that was the exception, for sure, and it was not at our request. For what we did we did free of charge.

And the same has continued with the ministry the Lord has given me which I do full time. And my husband and I are not wealthy people. We live on Social Security. But we have all that we need. And we have enough to where we can give to others, too. And this has nothing to do with bragging, okay? The Lord is just using this as an example here of what it looks like to care more about others and their needs and to not look for some kind of monetary or otherwise recompense. It is a model, not a self pat yourself on the back.

We who are followers of Jesus Christ are to be ministering to the body of Christ and to the people of the world in showing them the love of Jesus and in sharing with them the truth of the gospel of our salvation, without looking for anything in return. And, if we are called of God, God will meet our needs. And if we have to, we can go without some things in order to minister to others free of charge. For we are to empty ourselves, and we are to humble ourselves, and we are to lead others to walks of faith in obedience to God.

Ministers of Our God

An Original Work / June 21, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Ministers of our God,

harken to hear Him speak.

Have you given Him

your hearts and souls today?

Hasten to give all to Him.

Let Him cleanse your hearts from sin.

Cast yourselves on His altar.

In your lives do not falter.

Ministers of our God,

harken to hear Him speak.

Have you given Him

your hearts and souls today?

Ministers of our God,

flee from all your idols.

Remove them from your lives.

Be transformed today.

Listen to the words I say.

Give your all to Christ today.

Let him rule within your hearts,

cleanse from sin, His grace impart.

Ministers of our God,

flee from all your idols.

Remove them from your lives.

Be transformed today.

Ministers of our God,

won’t you come to His cross?

Die to sin and yourselves.

Penitently pray.

Humbly accept Him today.

Let Him wash your sins away.

Receive Him into your hearts.

His mercy and grace impart.

Ministers of our God,

won’t you come to His cross?

Die to sin and yourselves.

Penitently pray.

https://vimeo.com/127504455

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